Monday, January 16, 2012

The Rise and Fall of Programming Languages in 2011

The Rise and Fall of Programming Languages in 2011 Last year marked many changes in programming: Mobile devices emerged as a major programming platform and, at the other end of the spectrum, clouds became an established platforms for data and applications. In between, desktops and laptops gained substantially more RAM and somewhat more processor cores. Predictably, some of these changes trickled down to the choice of languages.